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We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology entrepreneurs solving the world’s social and environmental problems. This year, we are also offering an Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prize. A $50,000 USD Ethical AI Prize will be awarded to a startup designing artificial intelligence (AI) in an inherently…

2020 has been a doozy of a year, and it can be an especially challenging time to keep your organization running smoothly in an already complex and ever-evolving security environment. Security analysts juggle an overwhelming number of alerts siloed across multiple consoles in order to counter attacks, protect against breaches, and stay compliant – and many are doing this while working from home for most of this year. This balancing act reminds me of my…

When you move somewhere new, they say you should immerse yourself in the culture. In Colorado, that means scaling mountains. Whether you are grinding up a trail on a mountain bike, strapping on a headlamp at 4:00 a.m. to hike a 14er (a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet), or my personal favorite (yet least accomplished), jumping on belay and wedging yourself inside a crack in Eldorado Canyon and making the…

Amazon Web Services has rolled out a new, more native way to connect SD-WAN infrastructures with AWS resources. Introduced at its re:Invent virtual event, AWS Transit Gateway Connect promises a simpler, faster, and more secure way for customers to tie cloud-based resources back to data centers, remote office workers or other distributed access points as needed. Thirteen networking vendors including Cisco, Aruba, Arista, Alkira, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Versa announced support for the technology, which…

Author: Joe Weiss. Editor: Nicki Vereschagin   In January of 2020, retailers around the world assembled in New York for NRF to see the latest and greatest in technology solutions to help enhance the guest experience in their retail stores. Most retailers were not aware of how their strategy would need to change and adapt in the coming months as the world changed in the blink of an eye. At Cisco we have seen a massive…

I’ve been a Mozilla‘s Firefox browser fan since it was a beta. Starting in 2004, it was my favorite web browser. That wasn’t just because it was open-source, but because it was so much better and more secure than Internet Explorer. Things have changed. The browser itself is still good, but fewer and fewer people use it. And The Mozilla Foundation appears to be getting in deeper financial trouble In Mozilla’s 2019 annual report, Mozilla…

As the SD-WAN enterprise customers increase their consumption of business-critical applications from cloud or directly as SaaS over the Internet, there is a growing need for on-demand SD-WAN extension to the cloud or SaaS of choice. Cisco has partnered with AWS, to deliver Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to extend our SD-WAN fabric to AWS workloads. As our customers transition their workloads to AWS, Cisco continues to build on this partnership to accelerate our customer’s SD-WAN…

Native CloudEOS integration with AWS Transit Gateway Connect designed to lower costs, accelerate deployments, and simplify end-to-end segmentation SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced enhancements to Arista CloudEOS™, providing native support for AWS Transit Gateway Connect. The integration of CloudEOS with AWS Transit Gateway Connect enables enterprise networks to cost-effectively and easily connect Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enterprise campus, branch, cloud, and data…

First – THANK YOU for joining us at WebexOne – our premier, digital, collaboration event. What an amazing two days we just had – from revealing the all-new Webex, to hearing performances from Broadway Cares, to learning how much RuPaul loves Webex! But the best part of it all was the participation from our customers – more than 20 customers joined us to tell their stories and showcase the real-world innovations that happen with Webex!…

Public cloud infrastructure led by industry leaders such as AWS will continue to play dominant roles across the IT industry for the foreseeable future. According to the IDC Research report “Worldwide Whole Cloud Forecast, 2020–2024”, global cloud revenue for hardware/software/support going to reach $180.7 B by 2024 up from 106.8 B in 2019, a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.1%. “By the end of 2021, based on lessons learned in the pandemic, most enterprises…